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Essays 601 - 630

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

A Comparison of Herodotus and Fischer.

316). The idea that historical research and results should be confined only to a few learned scholars, as far as Fischer is concer...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

Contradictions in the Biblical Story of David

asks David directly whose son he is, when in the previous chapter, it appeared that David was Sauls favorite and the Saul was ver...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Silent Lipreading and Activating the Auditory Cortex

In a paper consisting of two and a half pages the article 'Activation of the Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading' written by ...

Madame Butterfly and Othello, Themes Compared

Masks and weaknesses are two themes permeating Othello by William Shakespeare and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. This paper co...

Setting Impact of David Michael Kaplan's Short Story 'Doe Season'

In five pages this paper assesses the impact of the winter woods' setting on 'Doe Season,' a 1985 short story by David Michael Kap...

Concepts of Nature and Wilderness

In fourteen pages this paper contrasts and compares modern policies and approaches to land management with the concepts and views ...

Globalization's Advantages and Disadvantages

This paper consists of fifteen pages and considers globalization and its effects through an assessment of advantages and disdadvan...

Social Change as Viewed by David Landes and John Foster

In ten pages two comparative and contrasting views on social change are examined as they are represented in John Foster's The Vuln...

U.S. Judicial System and Prejudice

our limitations. If an individual is judging who is guilty of a crime with a choice of two people, and has the knowledge of the ...

Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

David Hume's Critique of Rene Descartes' Existence of God 'Proof'

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

Two Perspectives on Economic and Social Development by Foster and Landes

In nine pages a comparative analysis of two texts that consider social and economic development and the influence of capitalism, T...

Contemporary Russia and Democracy

In ten pages Russia's attempts to establish both democracy and a free market economy are evaluated in terms of the concepts discus...

Senses and Language Connection

Language in a More-than-Human World (Pantheon, 1996) that it is our physical removal from land that has impeded our ability to coe...

Frontiers Construction

In six pages the argument that men are largely responsible for establishing and maintaining new frontiers both mentally and physic...

Unstoppable Knowledge Pursuit

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...

David Lurie in In the Beginning by Potok

David was well aware of his shortcomings in the eyes of the robustly healthy bullies. His own frail health prevented him from tak...

Immoral Act Ethical Justification

take that same action" (Hosmer 379). In effect, the philosopher was saying that by continuing forward with such things that appea...

Walking on Thin Ice by David Hempleman Adams

In seven pages this paper discusses the North Pole expedition of 2 men as recounted in this text by David Hempleman Adams. There ...

Modernity and What it Means

In five pages this paper attempts to derive modernity's meaning in an examination of All That is Solid Gold Melts into the Air by ...

Teleology and Proving God's Existence Through Reason

thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...

A Review of First In His Class"

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Pulitzer prize winning journalist David Mariniss. This book focuses on Bill Clinton's climb...

Advertising According to David Ogilvy

In three pages this paper compares Theodore Levitt's The Marketing Imagination and Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation to David Og...

Hypothetical Conversation Between Rene Descartes and David Hume

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

Transcendentalist Ideas of Henry David Thoreau

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

Why Utility Pleases by David Hume and Sympathy's Role

In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...